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The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Diemer, Ulli
http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxAnnual-Intro-All.htmPublisher: Connexions Information Sharing Services, Toronto, Canada Year First Published: {11661 The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections CONNEXIONS ANNUAL INTRODUCTIONS TO THE DIRECTORY & ITS SECTIONS Diemer, Ulli http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxAnnual-Intro-All.htm Connexions Information Sharing Services Toronto Canada This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems. 1989 1994 CxDigest49-Annual1989.jpg ART Article We live in a world in crisis. Governments, corporations, and institutions assure us they have everything under control, and that better times are just around the corner, but all around us we see poverty, violence, injustice, environmental disasters, and wars. <br> <br>For more than a decade, they have imposed a new-right agenda on our societies, telling us we have no choice but to adapt to a `new world order' based on `free markets' and privatization. Instead of experiencing the promised benefits, however, most of us find ourselves worse off, economically, socially, and spiritually. <br> <br>Most of us are not living the lives we would choose to live, but the existing order insists there are no alternatives to itself, and most of us are sufficiently convinced or pre-occupied or discouraged to keep society from coming unglued. Many, many people wish there were alternatives, or think there ought to be, but are resigned to the conclusion that it is utopian to entertain any hopes for real change. The `system' is too big, too powerful, and we are too weak and too few in numbers. <br> <br>'What do we do now?' 'How do we live?' All too often, we mind our own problems and don't think about the rest. <br> <br>Yet despite the pervasive feeling that 'nothing can be done', people do join together to act in common when they feel threatened or wronged, or when they have a goal in sight which they desire passionately enough. Sometimes they organize quietly and gradually. At other times a mass movement explodes into being, seemingly out of nothing, despite the risks and the odds. <br> <br>- Ulli Diemer CX5417 1 false true false CX5417.htm [0xc000799470 0xc000b5ced0 0xc000f6ed50 0xc000f6f6b0 0xc000f84a50 0xc000fb2a80 0xc000fcc4e0 0xc000252420 0xc0001bf770 0xc0001fb860 0xc0001fbbc0 0xc0002a5590 0xc0003944e0 0xc0007e5b90 0xc00049a6c0 0xc000358840 0xc00076fb60 0xc000070e40 0xc000ada810 0xc000c361e0 0xc00056bbc0 0xc001298660 0xc001569620 0xc002012390 0xc0026bc300 0xc0026bde90 0xc0026f51d0] Cx} Year Published: 1994 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX5417 This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems. Abstract: We live in a world in crisis. Governments, corporations, and institutions assure us they have everything under control, and that better times are just around the corner, but all around us we see poverty, violence, injustice, environmental disasters, and wars. For more than a decade, they have imposed a new-right agenda on our societies, telling us we have no choice but to adapt to a `new world order' based on `free markets' and privatization. Instead of experiencing the promised benefits, however, most of us find ourselves worse off, economically, socially, and spiritually. Most of us are not living the lives we would choose to live, but the existing order insists there are no alternatives to itself, and most of us are sufficiently convinced or pre-occupied or discouraged to keep society from coming unglued. Many, many people wish there were alternatives, or think there ought to be, but are resigned to the conclusion that it is utopian to entertain any hopes for real change. The `system' is too big, too powerful, and we are too weak and too few in numbers. 'What do we do now?' 'How do we live?' All too often, we mind our own problems and don't think about the rest. Yet despite the pervasive feeling that 'nothing can be done', people do join together to act in common when they feel threatened or wronged, or when they have a goal in sight which they desire passionately enough. Sometimes they organize quietly and gradually. At other times a mass movement explodes into being, seemingly out of nothing, despite the risks and the odds. - Ulli Diemer Subject Headings
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